Influenced in her youth by like-minded writers and poets such as Langston Hughes and William Wordsworth, bell hooks championed the socially active writing and critical reading style that remains influential in literature classes today. In this moving memoir, bell hooks recalls the moments that firmed her resolve to live and read and write as she chose. Wounds of Passion: The Writing Life focuses on hooks’s early career as a writer and the process she followed to produce some of her earliest works.

Buy a discounted Paperback of Wounds of Passion online from Australias leading online bookstore. From an early age, hooks realized that although she was expected, as a mid-century woman of color, to be a traditional wife and mother, she could, instead, choose a life of the mind. Booktopia has Wounds of Passion, A Writing Life by Bell Hooks. From an early age, hooks realized that although she was expected, as a mid-century woman of color, to be a traditional wife and mother, she could, instead. Writer bell hooks 'Wounds of Passion' is a tribute to her life as an author, feminist and social activist. Writer bell hooks' 'Wounds of Passion' is a tribute to her life as an author, feminist and social activist. Half-cloth, wheat colored paper boards, spine in red cloth, titles in gold.

Wounds of Passion describes a woman's struggle to devote herself to writing, sharing the difficulties, the triumphs, the pleasures, and the dangers. Half-cloth, wheat colored paper boards, spine in red cloth, titles in gold. Writing the acclaimed book Ain't I a Woman: Black Women and Feminism at the age of nineteen, she begins to emerge as a brilliant social critic and public intellectual. Wounds of Passion: A Writing Life bell hooks.

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